The Official Unofficial Book Group Book Discussion thread

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GregP Oct 2021 7:53am, 12 Oct 2021 129,820 posts	0 GregP I liked Trunk Music rather more than the rest of the Fetchland Bosch Crew, I think. It’s no Last Coyote but comfortably my second favourite, or third if you include The Poet.
Diogenes Oct 2021 10:08pm, 12 Oct 2021 63,429 posts	0 Diogenes Clarice Lispector is definitely not one for the Bosch Crew. There are lots of words and thoughts but no narrative drive, let alone action. Each section is on slightly connected the the preceding, and the timeline is unspecified. Listening to this audiobook is rather like listening to ambient music: the sound is soothing without having any direction or cohesion. Afterwards you remember nothing of it. It’s not a tune you can hum.
GregP Oct 2021 7:50am, 13 Oct 2021 129,825 posts	0 GregP While not selling the book to me in any way, that’s a nice post, Dio. Good work.
Diogenes Oct 2021 8:05am, 13 Oct 2021 63,438 posts	0 Diogenes I try my best.
Oscar the Grouch Oct 2021 12:19pm, 13 Oct 2021 3,648 posts	0 Oscar the Grouch I think you just described most visits to Fetchland, Dio
GregP Oct 2021 12:24pm, 13 Oct 2021 129,826 posts	0 GregP ~applauds~
Little Nemo Oct 2021 12:56pm, 13 Oct 2021 12,567 posts	0 Little Nemo Has anyone read The North Water? I really enjoyed the TV series and I'm thinking of reading the book it's based on.
Diogenes Oct 2021 1:04pm, 13 Oct 2021 63,460 posts	0 Diogenes No, LN, but it's a book I've fancied reading for a while. I keep meaning to catch up with the tv adaptation too.
Little Nemo Oct 2021 1:17pm, 13 Oct 2021 12,570 posts	0 Little Nemo It was very good, Colin Farrell was a bit of a revelation! I'm going to put the book on my Christmas wishlist
LindsD Oct 2021 9:07pm, 13 Oct 2021 50,144 posts	0 LindsD We've got a copy I think.

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Some of the most discussed books include:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
(mind-bending mystery with halls and statues)
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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (geriatric murder mystery from Britain's tallest comedic brainbox)
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The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
(Memoir of a homeless couple walking the SWCP)
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Milkman by Anna Burns
(Superlative prize-winning fiction)
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The Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks (Sci-Fi)
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (weird steampunk)
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